Guest Columns
A national park fee increase: The $70 land grab
On Oct. 24, the National Park Service (NPS) announced a proposed entrance fee of $70 at 17 of its 59 national parks. Touted as...
See how they run!
Last week, the Republican-controlled Senate Agriculture Committee worked overtime to turn its back on the people and the protection given them by the Colorado...
Are House Republicans murderers?
It is time for consequences. A time for the members of the U.S. House of Representatives who voted for this abomination of a health...
Market forces for products, not people
There is a lot of discussion about teacher pay in the United States, and Colorado is no exception. What gets less attention is the...
Democratic autopsy
It is odd that an autopsy should need to be done for the Democratic Party in an election year that saw them make gains...
The ‘them’ in ‘us versus them’
On the July 20 edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Michael Moore made an ominous prediction. He said, “I...
#Traitors4Trump
The fake president in the White House is a traitor, a liar, a braggart and a tool.
Trump is violating the Constitution every chance he...
Modernizing the canvass process for citizen initiatives
Colorado Amendment 71, Raise the Bar, passed in the November election.
It will now take a 55 percent supermajority to amend the state constitution.
Amendment 71...
A more perfect union
Current partisan politics frequently returns to questions and debates about the supreme law of the land — The Constitution — as it should, because...
Monitoring for invisible dangers
As communities across the country work to cut their emissions and ensure they are safe from environmental accidents, accurate testing of our air quality...
The people’s fight for open government
A major battle plays out daily in Colorado as some of our elected and appointed officials — all of whom took a solemn oath to...
How did we get here? Look to 2010
How the Republican Party turned what seemed like a dire situation after disastrous losses in both the 2006 and 2008 elections into legislative majorities...